Mexico's population was so sparse I don't think it had the people to guard its vast borders. If it hadn't been the United States someone else would've taken it from them.

I'd like to have left the continent to the indigenous inhabitants but, realistically, there's no way that was gonna happen..

They must have changed the schedule..or I missed it before. Dish TV is now saying the "JFK..the Smoking Gun", on the Reelz channel, is also showing 2 hours earlier than I said before...I said 7:00PM pst so it is also on at 5:00PM pst. It's also on at 9:00PM pst. Wow! 3 showings in a row! I'm all aglow with anticipation...can you tell?

Kend, you don't know squat about native indigenous cultures, from either side of the border. I'll not waste my precious time discussing colonialism or indigenous issues with someone who would write such rubbish as: "Here in Canada the native Indians where at war for more territory and women long before whitey came along." Nope! I ain't goin' there. Sorry... - AIW

Well, after having viewed the newest JFK conspiracy theory video, I learned some things that I had not previously known about the JFK assassination. I never knew about the Secret Service Agent in one of the trailing cars who had an AR-15 rifle, the witnesses at ground level closest to that car smelling gun powder, and several other things.

I have to say, however, the final conclusion that this film makes is preposterous. That conclusion was that after the first shot from Oswald, on the 6th floor of the Book Depository, had hit the pavement and a fragment hit Kennedy, then Gov. Connally turned around to the right (putting him into a position where the 2nd shot that went through JFK's neck then through Connally--indicating a "magic bullet" making unrealistic zig zags), and it was upon that second shot that Agent Hickey already having stood up after the first shot sweeping the crowd with the AR-15 , but when the car lurched upon the second Oswald shot, the agent was jerked back into the seat and his rifle "accidentally" went off just happening to hit JFK in the skull which blew away his right cranium.

All of the things they said in this movie right up until the time they tried to claim that it was just an unfortunate "accident" sounded plausible and seemed backed up by witnesses and facts and photos. But when they tried to claim that it was just an unfortunate "accident"...that's when they blew it...as far as credibility is concerned.

This was actually the theme of a 1992 book called "Mortal Error: The shot that killed JFK" and no one bought it then (literally...no one bought the book that had such a ridiculous conclusion) and no one will buy this renewed attempt to cover up what many people believe was an assassination by the Secret Service and others.

All those SS men had been heavily drinking at nightclubs up until very late hours and were all suffering either from hangovers or were still drunk. All except for the one guy who had that AR-15, Hickey. He had a different role to play..different responsibilities and wasn't out getting soused like the others.

Witnesses saw him, stand up and sweep the crowds with his weapon and there are photos that showed him standing with the AR-15.

The reason why it has been proven that the shot came from his direction was because of the angles of the entry hole (left rear...a 6mm hole) and the exit hole (on the upper right front) which blew away most of the skull in that location. Such an angle could not possibly have come from the 6th floor.

A 6mm hole is smaller than the hole that Oswald's ammo would have made. Oswald's hole in JFK's neck was 6.5mm and it when cleanly through. Oswald's ammo was a full metal jacket that would go straight through.

But the ammo that made the 6mm hole and blasted JFK's skull open was a fragmentation round of smaller caliber..hence the smaller 6mm entry hole. And that matched the caliber and fragmentation ammo that was in Hickey's weapon.

So, it is pretty conclusive that Hickey shot JFK but they are now trying to say that it was just an accident. Duh!!!
BS!!!

The film was trying to say that the reason why all those SS agents were acting so guilty..odd...forcing the body to be taken back to Bethesda for autopsy..then making a zoo out of the operating room...disappearing evidence...like the over 100 photos that were taken..and JFK's brain...was because they knew that one of their own SS agents shot JFK ...but they all believed it was an accident...an embarrassment...that they were trying to cover up. That's total BS. They were certainly trying to cover up but this was no accident!

Out of all the people that SS agent could have "accidentally" shot... it was a direct hit on the back of JFK's head? BS!!! I sure don't know how they can expect people to buy their new disinformation coverup. But, obviously people are buying it. It's ridiculous!

But that's how they work...they bully people to sign an agreement to not say anything, under penalty of some terrifying retribution, as they did at Bethesda...and when people do start talking many years later...facts come out...and most people don't buy the official versions because they are obviously lying and covering up...then the fascist pigs get some other clown to write a book and make a movie to divert the truth..once again. Who's going to fall for the newest disinformation crap? Not me! And I'd bet not many people do.

Could it be that the book written in 1992 came out as the first attempt at cover up when it was learned that the SS agent photo show him with an AR-15. And the realization that the angle of fire that blew JFKs head off was that path leading back to the SS agent in several cars behind JFK?

No one bought it then. Do they now expect people to buy it again when they have this new so-called expert investigator all hyped up to be an invincible crime fighter? Just more BS from the propagandists!!

I've always suspected that the Secret Service, the CIA, the Mob, LBJ and maybe even Jackie may have been in on this...;-0...after all JFK wasn't the most faithful of husbands was he? But, I digress....I really don't thing Jackie had anything to do with it.

One thing it does do it solidifies the culpability of the Secret Service and that Oswald was definitely not the lone gunman. It shows how the Warren Commission was covering up facts. This was not just the Secret Service it was a major conspiracy by powerful groups whose structure controls us today. Seig Heil!

Palindromedary ~ First, thanks for that great synopsis! I agree with you, I doubt Jackie had anything to do with it myself. Otherwise, she would have made damn sure she wasn't anywhere near him at the time--you know, like LBJ did. Nevertheless, this theory--pardon the pun--has one huge hole in it. The magic bullet aside--again, pardon the pun--how the hell do they explain Kennedy's head backward to the left motion if he was struck in the back of the head. Unless he was simultaneously hit from the front, his head should have been driven into the back of the front seat. (Physics 101) Don't tell me they left that explanation out of the movie--and the book. That, after all, is the biggest question of all. Without that little explanation everything else is a pile of (s)misinformation(t).

By the way, most organizations in this country where employees compete amongst each other are well known to have workers who routinely risk their own job and jail in order to cover for each others mistakes rather than exploit them. And, as we all know, a bunch of drunks will always rush to the aid of the one tea toddler in the whole group who makes them look bad. (Note: I'm being sarcastic--very, very, sarcastic.) That is why this explanation seems like such a crock from the word go. On the other hand, it isn't really that much harder to swallow then the original Warren Commission Report was. A little more truth. I don't doubt Hickey shot the President. I just don't believe he shot by accident; or, he was the only other shooter. Even in James Files story someone shot him from behind at the same time. There was also supposed to be another shooter on the other side who missed and someone under the overpass in the front who hit Kennedy in the front of the head at the same time. A bullet hole was seen in the windshield by a Doctor in the Emergency Room at Parkland who is quoted at saying so. I seriously doubt anyone is going to buy this story the way it is.

However, it might just be one giant step closer to the truth. Thanks again for sharing it.

I know they weren't territorial (they even welcomed the white man, initially, at Plymouth). I'm not saying they never fought and always got along but the picture you're painting is what is called a "false equivalency", a fallacious "mirroring" of white and Native American cultures or an "ethnocentrism" which is a belief that your own culture's forms are "human nature", a common mistake.

The fact is, Kend, man is NOT naturally capitalist. At the level of technology the Native Americans were at people live a more natural way and there invariably is no territoriality, private property or hierarchy (no racial hierarchy, no gender hierarchy, no class hierarchy or any kind of hierarchy) and people live in a pure democratic communism.

None of this is controversial - in the sciences. The mos`t conservative anthropologist will not dispute this. They might say that subsequent capitalism is an improvement or some sort of an evolutionary advance but none will ever deny that ALL people come from a communal culture of equality.

Have a nice night, Kend.

Re: Social Security

I know that there are a few who get more out of Social Security than others, relative to what they put in. I wonder how the change in the earnings curve has impacted that. I suspect that the reason we have as much of a shortfall as we do is because more people are poor enough to get more back than they put in. Further, I suspect that the high earners who would normally be putting in more than they get out are earning too much. In other words, the expected earnings curve should have the low end earning more and the high end earning less, meaning a much greater portion of total earned incomes would be subject to the SSI tax.